today secretary panetta saying the u.s. is helping jordan deal with tens of thousands of refugees out of syria and getting ready for any potential syrian escalation. >> that's the reason we have our -- a group of our force there is working to help them build a headquarters there and to insure that we make the relationship between the united states and jordan a strong one so that we can deal with all of the possible consequences of what's happening in syria. >> activists say the civil war killed more than 30,000 people, many of them innocent men, women and children. jennifer griffin is in the pentagon tonight. when did the u.s. military deploy these forces in the country of jordan? >> bill, u.s. defense officials tell us several months ago, about 150 army special operations forces were sent to jordan. they mainly are there to try and help jordan in the event that the syrian chemical and biological weapons were to fall into the wrong hands, they've been preparing for that eventuality. defense secretary panetta referred them a